Post-individualism

Likes, friends and followers do not provide us with resonance; they only strengthen the echoes of the self.

Burnout, then, is an outcome of an interaction between burnout producing environmental factors and individually susceptible workers.

oftentimes when folks think about existing in groups, their self sort of gets lost. But, actually, caring for yourself—and, maybe, reinventing the individual narrative that has been so Americanized into something that’s going to contribute to the group’s care—is what I’m getting at.

Throughout the last few decades, our economic system has transformed society into a market, citizens into consumers, and communities into individuals

"[Swaraj] is loosely defined as self-rule but it actually goes much deeper," says Kothari, who has written extensively on Swaraj and the ecological crisis. "It means my own autonomy, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, my independence, both as an individual and as a community. But it's not the American notion of individualism that I can do what I